/g)].map((m) => m.index)
+ if (!starts.length) return ''
+ return html.slice(starts[0], starts[1] ?? html.length)
+}
+
+const fails = []
+const notes = []
+
+for (const lang of ['en', 'es', 'ar']) {
+ const R = createPacketRenderer({ strings, lang })
+ for (const variant of ['full', 'lightweight']) {
+ const tag = `${lang}/${variant}`
+
+ // (1) MISSING → loud.
+ const empty = page1(R.buildPacket(zone, [], new Map(), '', null, null, variant, null))
+ if (!empty) { fails.push(`${tag}: no page 1 rendered at all`); continue }
+ if (!empty.includes('class="map-missing"')) {
+ fails.push(`${tag}: mapSvg empty, but page 1 has NO missing-map notice — the silent cover this gate exists to prevent`)
+ } else if (empty.includes('map_unavailable')) {
+ fails.push(`${tag}: the notice printed the raw KEY "map_unavailable" instead of a sentence`)
+ } else if (!empty.includes(EN_NOTICE) && lang === 'en') {
+ fails.push(`${tag}: the notice text is not the English sentence from packet-strings.json`)
+ }
+
+ // (2) PRESENT → quiet, and the real map is on the page.
+ const full = page1(R.buildPacket(zone, [], new Map(), SVG, null, null, variant, null))
+ if (full.includes('class="map-missing"')) {
+ fails.push(`${tag}: mapSvg PRESENT, yet page 1 still prints the missing-map notice — a notice that always shows says nothing`)
+ }
+ if (!full.includes('class="probe-map"')) {
+ fails.push(`${tag}: mapSvg present but the SVG is NOT on page 1 — the fix displaced the map it was guarding`)
+ }
+ }
+ notes.push(` ok ${lang.padEnd(4)} full + lightweight: loud when missing, quiet when present`)
+}
+
+// Per-key fallback, stated separately because it is a property of the STRINGS, not the renderer:
+// every non-English locale deliberately lacks the key and must inherit the English sentence.
+const missingIn = Object.keys(strings).filter((k) => k !== '_meta' && k !== 'en' && !strings[k].map_unavailable)
+notes.push(` ok ${missingIn.length} locales fall back to the English sentence (no invented translations)`)
+
+for (const n of notes) console.log(n)
+if (fails.length) {
+ console.error('MAP-MISSING-LOUD: FAIL')
+ for (const f of fails) console.error(` ✗ ${f}`)
+ process.exit(1)
+}
+console.log('MAP-MISSING-LOUD: PASS — page 1 names a missing map and stays quiet when the map is there, in en/es/ar, both variants.')
diff --git a/library/packet/packet-render.js b/library/packet/packet-render.js
index 9f25f15d2..5b24deef6 100644
--- a/library/packet/packet-render.js
+++ b/library/packet/packet-render.js
@@ -251,6 +251,14 @@ export function createPacketRenderer({ strings, lang = 'en', fontData = null, de
/* FINE PRINT — product decision: attribution minimal, fine print small. */
.fine{position:absolute;left:0;right:0;bottom:22px;text-align:center;
font:400 13px Georgia,serif;color:#a89f8c}
+ /* THE MAP IS MISSING, and this says so where the map would have been.
+ ⚠ Centred in the SAME region the map occupies, not tucked into the fine print: a reader
+ comparing two packets must be able to see at a glance which one lost its illustration.
+ Quiet, not alarming — it is a missing picture in an otherwise complete document, so it reads
+ as a caption rather than an error. No border and no icon for the same reason: on a printed
+ page an error box costs ink and implies the whole packet is suspect. */
+ .map-missing{position:absolute;left:${M}px;right:${M}px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);
+ text-align:center;font:italic 19px Georgia,serif;color:#a89f8c}
/* PRINT. The sheet is authored at ${W}px wide while @page is physical, so without
a rescale the browser maps ${W}px -> 15.6in and TILES one sheet over many pages.
@@ -328,10 +336,45 @@ export function createPacketRenderer({ strings, lang = 'en', fontData = null, de
${esc(fill(t('map_page_sub'), { count: num(count) }))}